Box-former



(No Model.) I

M. F. WILSON.

BOX FORMER.

No. 350,961. Patented 001;. 19, 1886.

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MERRICK F. W'ILSOAXOF CHICAGO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES R. STEELE AND V. CLAREJCE PRICE, BOTH OF \VAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS.

BOX-FORMER.

' IEIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,961, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed May 15, 1885. Serial No. 165,646. (No model.)

Zo aZZ whom it may concern; wholly or partially constructed the operation Be it known that I, MERRICK F. IVILSQN, a of removing the box when completed from the citizen of the United States, and residing at former is attended with some little difficulty, Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of owing to the impossibility of properly grasp- Illinois, have invented certain newand useful ing the box without compressing it against Improvementsin Box-l ormers,whicharefully the former. This difficulty is entirely overset forth in the following specification, refercome by the use of my improved stripper, in ence being had to the accompanying drawings, the operation of which, by pressing against the in which foot-piece G the head G will be brought to Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, against the bottom of the boX with a degree of a former embodying myinventioinand Fig. of force corresponding to that applied to the 2, a plan view of the same. other end of the stripper, and will remove the Like letters refcrtolike partsin both the fig box readily without the application of the ures of the drawings. hand thereto in a simple and effective man- My invention relates to box-formers, its obner. In case the box should happen to stick 6 ject being to facilitate the operation of removon account of the closeness of its lit upon the ing the completed box or box-top from the former, or of the presence of any glue between former; and to that end it consists inv certain it and the former, the force which may be apnovel features, which I will now proceed to plied to it by the use of myimproved stripper 20 describe, and will then particularly point out will be sufficient to readily remove the same. 0 in the claims. In the application of my stripper to the de- In the drawings I have shown myimprovescription of box-former shown in the drawment as applied to a boxiormer of the deings it will be seen that the squared portion scriptionset forth in an application for Letters of the rod or stem of the stripper, being in Patent filed by me July 14, 1884, Serial No. contact with the walls of the slot g,will rotate 137, 715, in which A represents the standard, with the revoluble head and parts attached 13 the stem, and C the clamp for securing the thereto, so as to keep the head G in proper stem to the standard. relative position to the jaws F. This con- D represents the revoluble head; D, the top struction is, however, only necessary when a 0 plate thereof; E, the base-plate adjustablyathead rectangular in form is employed, as is So tached thereto; F, the adjustable jaws mounted the casein the construction shown in the drawto said base-plate, and f the screws which seings, and any well-known equivalent device cure thesaid adjustable jaws together. These may be employedsuch as aspline-and-groove parts are all constructed substantially as in connection between the rod and base-plate, or my application hereinbefore referred to, refpins-passing from the head G through the 8 erence to which is made fora further descripplate and revoluble head. IVhen the head tion of the same. is circular in form, any connection to cause it G indicates the stripper, which consists of a to rotate with the former proper maybe disrod passing through the stem B, which is made pcnsed with. 4c hollow to receive the same, the said rod being It will be observed that thehead Gand footof greater length than the stem, and being propiece G" form stops which limit the movement vided at one end with a head, G, of suitable of the stripper and prevent its becoming desize and form, and at the other end with a foottached or moving too far in either direction. piece, G The upper end of the said rod is A spring may be employed to retract the 5 squared, as shown at g, for a portion of its stripper, so as to bring it to its normal posilength adjacent to the head G, the said squared tion,with the head G at its maximum distance portion passing through a groove, of corfrom the bottom of the box when the same is responding width in the base-plate E. in place.

In the construction of boxes in which a The head G may be constructed of a size 0 former is employed upon which the box is equal in its dimensions to the space within the jaws F when they are adjusted to that position which brings them most closely together.

It is obvious that although I have shown my improvement as applied to a particular description of box-former of my own invention, it is equally applicable to any other approved kind of box-former.

It is also obvious that various mechanical modifications may be made in the details of construction without departing from the prin; ciple of my invention, and I therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting myself strictly to the precise details of construction herein before described, and shown in the drawings.

I am aware of Letters Patent No. 126,378, granted May 7, 1872, to George It. Clarke,

and I do not wish to be understood as claiming anything set forth in said Letters Patent.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1'. The combination,with a box-former consisting of a revoluble head upon which the former proper is mounted, and a stem upon which the revoluble head is mounted, of the stripper extending through the stem and capable of rotation therein and connected to the former proper, so as to rotate therewith, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination, with the stem B, the i MERRICK F. WVILSON.

Witnesses:

W. O. CoRLrEs, A. M. BEST. 

